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ARTICLE · 04 FEBRUARY 2015

Lawsuits Block Cuba’s Path To Normalization

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Joseph DeMaria was quoted in The Tampa Tribune article, "Lawsuits Block Cuba’s Path to Normalization."

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Joseph DeMaria was quoted in The Tampa Tribune article, "Lawsuits Block Cuba's Path to Normalization." Full text can be found in the January 24, 2015, issue, but a synopsis is below.

In the view of the United States, Cuba forfeited the sovereign immunity that protects it from civil suits in U.S. courts three decades ago when it embraced terrorist groups in Latin America.

Since that time the Cuban government has racked up a bill of more than $4 billion.

The civil judgments against Cuba were made possible by a 1996 U.S. law allowing victims of designated terrorist states to sue for damages and by a 2002 law allowing them to take the defendant's assets frozen by the U.S. government.

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